Mods please make this sticky.
Before anyone flashes any custom rom further, be sure to back up your
/efs folder somewhere on your PC.
The /efs folder is a hidden folder. You wont be able to see it using a usual file explorer e.g astro. You will need to be root to do so using root explorer for e.g.
This is something found sticky in the galaxy s forums and unfortunately for some of us it is coming too late.
The backup might come handy anytime if ever you mess up your own with custom rom flashing.
Thanks
Edit: just for you to understand the situation, by messing up i mean where product code and imei of the phone gets changed to a fail-safe one and even nandroid backups are of no help.
What exactly is in /efs that we need to back up?
I actually have already flashed one rom and after that I could not make or receive phone calls. I ended up calling Sprint and after about an hour of tinkering on their end they got it working. Would this be due to something missing in the /efs folder?
Everything concerning ur hardware info in short. Bluetooth, mac number, imei, ....
Many of us have got this tampeted with and unfortunately we had no clue it was something important( despite numerous threads in the i9000 forums warning users of this and nobody had backups) ,
there is no fix yet.
Check the nexussense forum for more details.
But do make a backup please.
After that whole incident I downloaded Samsung's Reflash tool and restored my phone back to stock.
Since then I have reflashed a custom kernel, but so far all is well. What exactly should be in the /efs folder as far as files.
My /efs folder has
Code:
imei>bt.txt
uart_path
bluetooth>bt_addr
nv.log
lost+found
Could you tell me if I am missing anything. I checked my MEID by typing *#06# and it matches what I have on the box.
EDIT: the bt.txt file int he imei folder does not have my MEID in it. Is it suppose to be in there?
I just copied and pasted a back up using root explorer to my sd card. I am on miui NS4G when doing this should I be on a stock rom?
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seekis said:
After that whole incident I downloaded Samsung's Reflash tool and restored my phone back to stock.
Since then I have reflashed a custom kernel, but so far all is well. What exactly should be in the /efs folder as far as files.
My /efs folder has
Code:
imei>bt.txt
uart_path
bluetooth>bt_addr
nv.log
lost+found
Could you tell me if I am missing anything. I checked my MEID by typing *#06# and it matches what I have on the box.
EDIT: the bt.txt file int he imei folder does not have my MEID in it. Is it suppose to be in there?
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Did you have a backup? Also where on samsung's site is and how to use it please? And is there one that will work on nexus s?
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Isnt this something that only gets messed with if you use someone elses Nandroid?
A custom rom doesnt normally mess with that folder, i thought...
Anyway, i have a Nandroid of my phone from before i flashed anything to it, so i assume im covered with that.
Can the OP please post a method to do the back up before making it a sticky tab?
Pointless to make it sticky and we still had to find the way to back up ourself. LOL
window7 said:
Can the OP please post a method to do the back up before making it a sticky tab?
Pointless to make it sticky and we still had to find the way to back up ourself. LOL
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Agree even though it is pretty easy with Root Explorer. Just go to the root of the phone and find the folder called "efs". Long press the folder and choose copy. Go to the "sdcard" and paste it. I also suggest connecting your phone to your computer and save the "efs" folder to your computer somewhere you'll be able to find it.
An alternative to root explorer, you can use IO file manager (I think it works)/
From this thread ADB is also very easy.
Open a terminal emulator or ADB on your computer and type
su
busybox cp -a /efs /sdcard/
back up the file on your computer and you're done
AshsToAshs said:
Isnt this something that only gets messed with if you use someone elses Nandroid?
A custom rom doesnt normally mess with that folder, i thought...
Anyway, i have a Nandroid of my phone from before i flashed anything to it, so i assume im covered with that.
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Nandroid doesn't touch this folder, it seems. Best to make a backup on your own to be safe.
Zehlek said:
Did you have a backup? Also where on samsung's site is and how to use it please? And is there one that will work on nexus s?
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I did not have a previous back up. I pulled mine from my phone with adb. I have no idea about your other questions.
window7 said:
Can the OP please post a method to do the back up before making it a sticky tab?
Pointless to make it sticky and we still had to find the way to back up ourself. LOL
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If you already have adb, just do this:
Code:
adb pull /efs
seekis said:
I did not have a previous back up. I pulled mine from my phone with adb. I have no idea about your other questions.
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You said you used Samsung reflash tool. I was wondering where I can download it and how to use it
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seekis said:
If you already have adb, just do this:
Code:
adb pull /efs
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I already flashed sense 0.3 and didn't backup
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im still trying to figure out what exactly is getting messed with as the OP did not describe why we needed to back up this folder and or what could be messed up if we don't.
Any info would be great.
Zehlek said:
I already flashed sense 0.3 and didn't backup
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well try it anyway and see what you get...i already flashed a different rom too, but the folder was still there
seekis said:
im still trying to figure out what exactly is getting messed with as the OP did not describe why we needed to back up this folder and or what could be messed up if we don't.
Any info would be great.
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Look at this thread here. People are losing their IMEI number and is resulting in no service. If you back up the efs folder, it saves this information in case it happens to you.
I pulled it to my sdcard and computer. The imei folder is empty. I don't see a txt file and the bin files are all weird coding
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Zehlek said:
I pulled it to my sdcard and computer. The imei folder is empty. I don't see a txt file and the bin files are all weird coding
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Yeah, I just finally looked at my imei folder that I saved to my computer and it only has one bt.txt file...
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I got a dead pixel, Sprint has agreed to replace my Hero ... It sucks I'll have to root and set up my custom scenes all over again but it's no biggie.
My major concern is losing my text messages, how do I migrate them from one Hero to the other? Can I put them on the SD card?
akin_t said:
My major concern is losing my text messages, how do I migrate them from one Hero to the other?
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You don't.
Can I put them on the SD card?
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There are backup utilities in the Market to let you do a number of things with SMS messages.
how about restoring a nandroid backup from your current Hero onto the new one? is it possible/feasible or will it cause a load of problems? that way you'll have the new phone exactly like your current one...
any experts care to chime in?
posguy99 said:
You don't.
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lol
I use "SMS Backup & Restore", found in the market.
miguelfp1 said:
how about restoring a nandroid backup from your current Hero onto the new one? is it possible/feasible or will it cause a load of problems? that way you'll have the new phone exactly like your current one...
any experts care to chime in?
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I'm not an expert, but given that Nandroid goes to the trouble of marking the backup with the unique device ID, there might be some problem with that idea.
OTOT, I know when the Sprint Hero was first rooted, people were passing around pieces of Nandroid backup images, so maybe there is no difference.
Just do a nandroid backup and restore. Shouldn't be any problems. But if you're not sure about that, sms is stored at /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db. Just back that up and push it to your new Hero. Then'll you have to go through setting everything back up.
my backup by reware(free)
ajones7279 said:
Just do a nandroid backup and restore. Shouldn't be any problems.
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there was a post around here somewhere a guy tried that and it worked fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=592798&highlight=nandroid+backup+phone
My kitchen includes an sms backup and wipe. Right now it doesn't include a way to push it back to the phone (that wasn't really something I was going for, there are plenty of backup programs) but it's another option. You would just have to manually push it back.
Thanks guys, I was having trouble with the Nandroid back up so I skipped it after rooting. I will move the SMS database to the new phone. Thanks again.
Wow. Suprised they would agree to replacing it for 1 bad pixel. I have two. Guess ill try it too.
Well I just got my phone, it's still under 30 days ... Still, it's a principle thing, they should replace it if you get a defective product.
ajones7279 said:
Just do a nandroid backup and restore. Shouldn't be any problems. But if you're not sure about that, sms is stored at /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db. Just back that up and push it to your new Hero. Then'll you have to go through setting everything back up.
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Can you expand on this a little? I feel it's the least invasive way to accomplish what I'm shooting for.
I'm assuming this all has to be done on the command line? Basically I 'cd' to that directory and copy the file mmssms.db and push (or paste) it to the same location once I get my new Hero?
Sounds easy enough, I hope it goes smoothly.
just thought i'd chime in here. i restored from one hero to another (replacement) a few weeks ago and everything is still working fine. haven't had any problems (other than the gmail sending issue mentioned in the other thread...cleared cache solved it).
ajones7279 said:
Just do a nandroid backup and restore. Shouldn't be any problems. But if you're not sure about that, sms is stored at /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db. Just back that up and push it to your new Hero. Then'll you have to go through setting everything back up.
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So my new phone is here
The directory exists, I can cd all the way to /databases ... However I cannot pull mmssms.db ... I am told "pull: permission denied"
Help?
akin_t said:
So my new phone is here
The directory exists, I can cd all the way to /databases ... However I cannot pull mmssms.db ... I am told "pull: permission denied"
Help?
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Type su first
Make sure you have a # prompt
That should do the trick
The phone is rooted I assume? Also you should just push the file to the new phone, it'll just copy over the old one
thedudejdog said:
The phone is rooted I assume? Also you should just push the file to the new phone, it'll just copy over the old one
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Yes, it is rooted. I'm trying what you suggested now. I'll let you know how it goes
Ok that worked ... However, I guess I'm a noob with Android syntax ... I can't seem to perform a pull.
I want to copy mmssms.db to my sdcard ...
When in the /databases folder, I typed ls and it listed that mmssms.db and telephony.db were present ... I know I'm in the right directory, how do I copy this? And how do I paste it back to the directory of the new phone?
Thanks.
alright... you should just type
adb shell
su
dump /file/path/filename
and then it should make a folder in your adb folder on your pc with the file in it.... in theory.
what is the file path? i will try it out
akin_t said:
Yes, it is rooted. I'm trying what you suggested now. I'll let you know how it goes
Ok that worked ... However, I guess I'm a noob with Android syntax ... I can't seem to perform a pull.
I want to copy mmssms.db to my sdcard ...
When in the /databases folder, I typed ls and it listed that mmssms.db and telephony.db were present ... I know I'm in the right directory, how do I copy this? And how do I paste it back to the directory of the new phone?
Thanks.
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Code:
cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools
adb push mmssms.db /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases
this will work as long as your mmssms.db file is in the android sdk tools directory. wham bam thank you ma'am
I apologies in advance if this is not the correct place to post this.
I recently purchased a rooted and unlocked SGS2. Coming from a Jailbroken iPhone4, this is my first Android. For more than a month everything worked great with my Fido sim. However, all of a sudden I lost data connectivity. After reading forums and researching on Google I reinstalled/flashed the firmware, modem and so on. But the problem still persists. In fact now my sim is not even recognised.
Did a clean wipe and re-rooted using Odin3 v1.85
PDA: CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_KG6-v4.1-CWM4
Phone: MODEM_I9100XXKG6_REV_02_CL1044543.tar
Then performed a sim unlock using an app from Market.
Under 'About phone' the 'Baseband version' still say 'Unknown'
I don't know what else to do. Please help... Thank you
Hi mate, would u tell me if u can c the imei no. of ur device!
dial *#06#
U should be able to read the proper number
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drreality said:
Hi mate, would u tell me if u can c the imei no. of ur device!
dial *#06#
U should be able to read the proper number
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I don't. All it says is "IMEI" with an Okay button...
vish4488 said:
I don't. All it says is "IMEI" with an Okay button...
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Sounds like your efs files got messed up, I don't think there is a way to fix it if you don't have a backup copy of your efs folder. Maybe Samsung can repair it for you.
jhernand1102 said:
Sounds like your efs files got messed up, I don't think there is a way to fix it if you don't have a backup copy of your efs folder. Maybe Samsung can repair it for you.
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Oh man! I guess I will call them tomorrow and see what they recommend.
jhernand1102 said:
Sounds like your efs files got messed up, I don't think there is a way to fix it if you don't have a backup copy of your efs folder. Maybe Samsung can repair it for you.
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how can we make a backup of the EFS files?
One the backup your EFS post in the dev section .
Two nitralitys app .
http://www.appbrain.com/app/nitralit...sanity.toolbox
Three other methods as posted .
jje
Samsung pretty much said that they cannot help
Then flash a stock rom see if that pulls it back .Do nothing else stock rom reboot and check IMEI .
That fails search exact same problem EFS i believe someone recently recovered one .
jje
JJEgan said:
Then flash a stock rom see if that pulls it back .Do nothing else stock rom reboot and check IMEI .
That fails search exact same problem EFS i believe someone recently recovered one .
jje
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I flashed generic samsung rom from here.
However, the phone is now stuck in a boot loop
_____
Got it out of the loop by flashing these (below), but I am back to square one. I will try to find the EFS file from online...
PDA: CODE_I9100XXKG6_CL425236_REV02_user_low_ship.tar.md5
Phone: MODEM_I9100XXKG6_REV_02_CL1044543.tar.md5
CSC: GT-I9100-CSC-MULTI-OXAKG6.tar.md5
efs is unique for each phone, as it contain the imei in those files
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DummyPLUG said:
efs is unique for each phone, as it contain the imei in those files
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Someone suggested "deleted the nv_data.bin and the nv_data.md5 in efs folder with Root Explorer, and renamed the .nv_data.bak into nv_data.bin, then restart."
Using Root Explorer I can access the efs folder. Where I can see all the files and my IMEI. But I cant make any changes as its read only. I have tried multiple code using terminal but I still can't access it.
vish4488 said:
Someone suggested "deleted the nv_data.bin and the nv_data.md5 in efs folder with Root Explorer, and renamed the .nv_data.bak into nv_data.bin, then restart."
Using Root Explorer I can access the efs folder. Where I can see all the files and my IMEI. But I cant make any changes as its read only. I have tried multiple code using terminal but I still can't access it.
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Didn't work
I am in the same situation, is there any fix?
I fixed my problem by shutting down the phone, removing the sim card, booted, then the IMEI command returned a number.
I did a full backup of my efs folder. (nothing to do in solving the issue, but it was the time or never to do it).
Restarted, putting the sim back in, and voila.
iam in the same sitatuion .. :/
I've backuped my actual system /2.3.5 with CF Root Kernel 4.2 and restored the Original Firmware Backup i made at first day i've got the I9100
Then i try to copy out the /efs Folder, backup on my computer, restore the image from today and replace the /efs Folder from the stock rom... hope it works :/
// i think it works, but have to test - after restoring my backup i made 30 minutes before (with the baseband and imei problem (i backuped with this problem)) withhout chaning anything in the /efs folder it works, too.
I think some data after rebooting will be lost.. dont know.. have to wait and test :/
same problem here. tried to update to the new modem and this happened.
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I wish i had known i needed to backup something before updating to the EG31 modem for the epic 4g touch.
Is there a fix to this? Cant use my phone until this is fixed...
download KTool or HC-kTool from new Android market, make sure your phone has root permissions or super user, you know after you root you get it anyway, it has efs file that should have a backup for your imie, also get Root explrer and Rom Manaer they have access to efs file, you should watch Mobiletech reviews on YouTube, he also provides his own tool that he says will fix your imie.
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the1cyrus said:
same problem here. tried to update to the new modem and this happened.
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I wish i had known i needed to backup something before updating to the EG31 modem for the epic 4g touch.
Is there a fix to this? Cant use my phone until this is fixed...
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E4GT is in a different forum, try there - it has a completely different method of managing modem firmware since it's a CDMA phone.
Hello guys, I have a question about the nandroid backup on Nexus 4
See I got my Nexus 4 the other day, and I flashed Clockworkmod Recovery 6.0.2.0, then I made a nandroid backup. The recovery said this backup was stored in sdcard/clockworkmod/backup. But when I return to my normal system I cannot find this folder(using root explorer). I can see that 1 or 2G space was used by something but I cannot find this folder no matter how, although this folder does exist. Later I found out that Rom Manager can get access to this folder.So is the recovery using a special way to hide this folder or what? Hope you guys can tell me something about this. Many thanks XD
ShawnZhang said:
Hello guys, I have a question about the nandroid backup on Nexus 4
See I got my Nexus 4 the other day, and I flashed Clockworkmod Recovery 6.0.2.0, then I made a nandroid backup. The recovery said this backup was stored in sdcard/clockworkmod/backup. But when I return to my normal system I cannot find this folder(using root explorer). I can see that 1 or 2G space was used by something but I cannot find this folder no matter how, although this folder does exist. Later I found out that Rom Manager can get access to this folder.So is the recovery using a special way to hide this folder or what? Hope you guys can tell me something about this. Many thanks XD
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Look in /data/media/Clockworkmod.
NOT the /sdcard/data, but in system root.
This recovery folder is only accessible by Clockwordmod when it is running. It cannot be displayed in file explorers for safety reasons, such as accidental deletion. But this folder can be accessed with a PC when your phone is connected to it, in order to take a backup of the folder. Hope this helps
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Check in /data/media as prev post said.
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CMNein said:
Look in /data/media/Clockworkmod.
NOT the /sdcard/data, but in system root.
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I see, thank you bro:good:
ajabhi95 said:
This recovery folder is only accessible by Clockwordmod when it is running. It cannot be displayed in file explorers for safety reasons, such as accidental deletion. But this folder can be accessed with a PC when your phone is connected to it, in order to take a backup of the folder. Hope this helps
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that will be much safer... Thanks bro~~ thanks for the explanation
CMNein said:
Look in /data/media/Clockworkmod.
NOT the /sdcard/data, but in system root.
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Finally I found that folder with your direction. Thank you bro!
Anyone else notice older versions of CWM backups were sometimes over 1gb and these new ones are only about 50mb?
dralways said:
Anyone else notice older versions of CWM backups were sometimes over 1gb and these new ones are only about 50mb?
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Yes, that's a new feature that tries to combine the backups and only re-backup newly changed data
Forgive my ignorance guys, but if you wipe the data partition, do you lose your backups? I want to get this straight before I root my phone that will apparently never be shipped to me.
Ordered my Nexus 4 on the 13th. Still waiting.
estallings15 said:
Forgive my ignorance guys, but if you wipe the data partition, do you lose your backups? I want to get this straight before I root my phone that will apparently never be shipped to me.
Ordered my Nexus 4 on the 13th. Still waiting.
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No you don't as the data partition is separate from the backup folder. But just to be sure, make a backup of your backup on your PC :cyclops:
Does TWRP also stores their back ups here too??
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ajabhi95 said:
This recovery folder is only accessible by Clockwordmod when it is running. It cannot be displayed in file explorers for safety reasons, such as accidental deletion. But this folder can be accessed with a PC when your phone is connected to it, in order to take a backup of the folder. Hope this helps
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how if when i plug my phone to the computer all i can see is the stuff in the SD drive?
Sparta507 said:
Does TWRP also stores their back ups here too??
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how if when i plug my phone to the computer all i can see is the stuff in the SD drive?
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I think you can copy your data/media/clockworkmod to your SDcard(with root explorer or something like that), then plug the phone to your PC, move the clockworkmod folder to your PC. I did it this afternoon
how do i go about doing a nandroid backup? steps please
so nandroid backup? save the backup folder to PC, then i can flash a custom rom like matrix1, and how do i get back all my apps/folders again? just put back the backupfolder?
can i just connect to my PC and copy and paste ALL OF the nexus4 drive? is that backing up as well?
ajabhi95 said:
This recovery folder is only accessible by Clockwordmod when it is running. It cannot be displayed in file explorers for safety reasons, such as accidental deletion. But this folder can be accessed with a PC when your phone is connected to it, in order to take a backup of the folder. Hope this helps
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How do i save the backup to my pc? I do not see the data folder when i pluge in my nexus 4 to my computer.
CMNein said:
Look in /data/media/Clockworkmod.
NOT the /sdcard/data, but in system root.
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Is this directory stored on the internal storage? In other words, when I do a wipe to I flash a rom, would this directory be included in that wipe? I mean, it sounds like a stupid question. And I would expect it to be located in the internal storage, but I don't wanna do a wipe and install the rom and now I'm stuck without my backup.
what would be the quickest process to copy a nandroid backup from my nexus4 to a computer?
and when i wanted to paste it back onto my phone, how would i go about doing that to restore from it?
I have been reading about how people (including myself) are having issues mounting the SD card with CWM Recovery 6.x.xx and I was wondering where (if it exists) I can find an earlier version for my Nexus 4. The problem I am having is when my phone is connected to my computer, I cant find the Clockwork Mod file to remove the backup from the device. I have the 8GB N4, so I really want to remove it, put it somewhere safe and not have it take up precious space.
If anyone has any thoughts or other solutions, please let me know. I am also having the same issue with TWRP2 (cant mount while in recovery).
toonhead85 said:
I have been reading about how people (including myself) are having issues mounting the SD card with CWM Recovery 6.x.xx and I was wondering where (if it exists) I can find an earlier version for my Nexus 4. The problem I am having is when my phone is connected to my computer, I cant find the Clockwork Mod file to remove the backup from the device. I have the 8GB N4, so I really want to remove it, put it somewhere safe and not have it take up precious space.
If anyone has any thoughts or other solutions, please let me know. I am also having the same issue with TWRP2 (cant mount while in recovery).
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Just download Astro file manager from the Play Store and find the backup and delete it. You can also delete the backup from in recovery as well.
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scream4cheese said:
Just download Astro file manager from the Play Store and find the backup and delete it. You can also delete the backup from in recovery as well.
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I have Root Explorer and can't find the folder on my /sdcard. If I could, I could take the backup and move it, but it doesn't seem to be visible.
I have been thinking, do I need to be rooted to be able to access the folder, or see it for that matter?
And as a side note, I tried TWRP2 and I can see the folder with backups made.
toonhead85 said:
I have Root Explorer and can't find the folder on my /sdcard. If I could, I could take the backup and move it, but it doesn't seem to be visible.
I have been thinking, do I need to be rooted to be able to access the folder, or see it for that matter?
And as a side note, I tried TWRP2 and I can see the folder with backups made.
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I had this same issue as I'm using CWM 6.0.2.0. For whatever reason, they changed the saved backups location to /data/media/clockworkmod now so you can't access it by plugging in your phone because the backups aren't on the sdcard. That's also the reason you can't find it. To my knowledge, you can do two things to get them to your computer:
1. Use ADB to pull the clockworkmod folder to your computer. I still haven't completely figured out how to do that yet as I don't screw around in ADB shell too much and I'm not sure if you have to mount the filesystem before doing it. I'm sure if you search around, you could find the ADB solution.
2. (This solution sucks but it works...) If you have a file manager (like X-plore) and root access, you can copy the contents of /data/media/clockworkmod folder to the sdcard location on your phone. Once it's there, THEN you can access that copy when it's plugged into your computer. Then just get rid of the .nomedia file in the folder and move it from your sdcard to your PC. Simple but takes forever for the files to copy depending on how many backups your moving and how big your blobs folder is.
If someone knows a better way, I'm definitely all ears. Really don't like how they changed CWM to this new style. Makes it a pain to offload backups from your phone to your PC.
Hatzy said:
I had this same issue as I'm using CWM 6.0.2.0. For whatever reason, they changed the saved backups location to /data/media/clockworkmod now so you can't access it by plugging in your phone because the backups aren't on the sdcard. That's also the reason you can't find it. To my knowledge, you can do two things to get them to your computer:
1. Use ADB to pull the clockworkmod folder to your computer. I still haven't completely figured out how to do that yet as I don't screw around in ADB shell too much and I'm not sure if you have to mount the filesystem before doing it. I'm sure if you search around, you could find the ADB solution.
2. (This solution sucks but it works...) If you have a file manager (like X-plore) and root access, you can copy the contents of /data/media/clockworkmod folder to the sdcard location on your phone. Once it's there, THEN you can access that copy when it's plugged into your computer. Then just get rid of the .nomedia file in the folder and move it from your sdcard to your PC. Simple but takes forever for the files to copy depending on how many backups your moving and how big your blobs folder is.
If someone knows a better way, I'm definitely all ears. Really don't like how they changed CWM to this new style. Makes it a pain to offload backups from your phone to your PC.
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I use ROM manager to connect to the server and download my nand directly to my PC.
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You have an option in cwm uder the backup menu to remove the backups or unused data. It works for me.
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strapped365 said:
I use ROM manager to connect to the server and download my nand directly to my PC.
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Didn't even know you could do that. I always just boot to CWM, never use the ROM manager app. That sounds like a paid feature or is it on the free version?
Edit: Yeah, it's a paid feature but I'm seriously considering going this route since it's so damn handy. If I can't figure out how to ADB it, I may just buy the premium version. Thanks bro.
webdo said:
You have an option in cwm uder the backup menu to remove the backups or unused data. It works for me.
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He wants a copy of the backups on his PC before he removes them.
Sorry for my incomplete answer than. I found mine using a root explorer
/mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup
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Thanks for all the great tips/answers/comments. I will see what I can do in terms of finding where the backup is stored on my phone now (since it seems there could be two places).
Cheers!!
Hatzy, you can pull the backups using insecure adbd by chainfire [app]. Otherwise, you can only pull sdcard. Or, i believe you can pull via the path /mnt/shell/emulated..
So, after doing some looking... I thiink my best bet is to use Rom Manager's new Download Server feature. I'll give it a try and let everyone know how it works out!!
Hey, I am now very much fed up with this Sprint Samsung Galaxy S4 Phone.
A few days ago I was trying to unlock my phone using simlock code *#0011#. That did NOT work! I tried other alternative methods to get even the sim card connect like connect to network. I used DFS CDMA tool to change my IMEI number but still nothing.
Then I found out about the nv_data.bin file. I rooted my phone, copied the "efs" folder using root browser not with command or anything I just copied it into my phone then to my computer. I then used EFS Pro tool //(I wasn't able to backup the efs folder before with this software)// to format the efs folder, then I copied the efs folder from the phone's other location and change the keystr to ON and factorymode to ON to get back my power menu and take out the yellow bar from comming. After that I checked that my baseband is saying unknown and IMEI is unknown. When I type *#06# to get the IMEI, it says "MEID" as title of the box and nothing else not even zeros. Also I do have only one file called maps_code.dat file in the /efs/imei folder. i mentioned this because I've read others' posts that they have maps_code.dat, keystr, and bt.txt files.
So Can anyone here PLEASE HELP ME!!! WITH THIS PROBLEM!!!
I have tried lots of different methods, none worked for me to restore the IMEI number I even tried to look into the nv_dat.bin fole using hex editor, but it says "ffff" and on the other side dots thats it. i looked at others, they had numbers and letters into them. However mine doesnt have any thing except "fff..." i can send all the pics you need to see.
THANKS!!!
Is there any Dongle/Box to repair the phone???
So first and foremost,im no expert with this,but here are my suggestions from what ive been reading.
The nv_data files are generated by the android os.
So this assumes you have no backup of the "/efs" folder.
Get ODIN,and download the stock MF9 tar file,i believe theres a listing for the files somewhere in the development thread.
Rooted or deodexed,you choose.
From what ive gathered,youre gunna need to reflash(with Odin) the stock firmware,and it "should" regenerate those files.
The Stock MF9 TAR file should be about 1.4 GB in size and ~2.x GB after extracted.if youre unfamiliar with how to use Odin,let me know ill walk you through it.
Before following through with all this,BE SURE to backup music,Pictures Etc,to your EXTERNAL SD card or better yet your PC.ODIN will reflash EVERYTHING.including your internal sd,so if you have anything there youre gunna want to back that up too.
In the meanwhile,
Read this.its for an S2,but the same concept applies.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264021
iPhone 4S 6.1.3
GotHeart
the /efs folder on our Sprint GS4 has almost nothing to do with our actual EFS where the MEID/IMEI etc is stored. You should not have messed with these files.
I would first try to put the phone into download mode and flash a full stock tar. mdc, mdl, mf9.. doesnt matter. if you still have no signal after that... i would then try to do a ##786# > reset (you will need spc/msl).
keep us posted on your progress.
yep best to get a S4 tar file flash with Odin
easily found here
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SPH-L720
see if this works first.
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the /efs folder on our Sprint GS4 has almost nothing to do with our actual EFS where the MEID/IMEI etc is stored. You should not have messed with these files.
I would first try to put the phone into download mode and flash a full stock tar. mdc, mdl, mf9.. doesnt matter. if you still have no signal after that... i would then try to do a ##786# > reset (you will need spc/msl).
keep us posted on your progress.
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It asks me for the MSL code, i dont know what that is, could you pls help me with this situation?
Thanks!
tidu12 said:
It asks me for the MSL code, i dont know what that is, could you pls help me with this situation?
Thanks!
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did you figure this out? I bought a used L720 but it was flashed to metro PCS so now i need to restore it to sprint settings. that means restoring the imei.... thanks in advance
dreyo27 said:
did you figure this out? I bought a used L720 but it was flashed to metro PCS so now i need to restore it to sprint settings. that means restoring the imei.... thanks in advance
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No, not yet.
any luck with solving this issue??????